Re: Running vimdiff in read-only mode with git-difftool?

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: May 18, 2009, 05:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20090518054224.GA32259@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e00fd550905172201n6c95dc1bia48c9ac25d8ec98f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:01:02PM -0700, Nick Welch wrote:

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> 
> According to the git-difftool manpage, what I'm trying to do
> should work:
> 
>   Instead of running one of the known diff tools,
>   git-difftool can be customized to run an alternative
>   program by specifying the command line to invoke in a
>   configuration variable difftool.<tool>.cmd.

Custom difftool.<tool>.cmd settings only work for custom (i.e. alternative/non-built-in) tools.

If you rename that to something like "myvimdiff" (or anything != "vimdiff") then it'll work as expected.

I wouldn't be opposed to a patch making {diff,merge}tool.<tool>.cmd work for built-in tools as well as long as it had a testcase and didn't end up making the code unnecessarily complex.

-- 
	David